Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Craig Ringer
Subject Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it
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Msg-id 51B80ABF.3040409@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Adding IEEE 754:2008 decimal floating point and hardware support for it  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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On 06/12/2013 01:03 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I worked with gdc' _Decimal* types last week
> 
> https://github.com/okbob/pgDecimal
> 
> I tested it, and should to say, so implementation in gcc is not good -
> lack of lot of functionality, and our Money type is little bit faster
> :(

That's very interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.

Time permitting I'll try adapting it for the Intel lib or IBM's older
pre-IEEE DFP lib and see how they compare.

-- Craig Ringer                   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services



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